Altar of the Kings

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discussed in biography

Balbás went to New Spain (as Mexico was known) about 1718, the year he began work on the altar for the Chapel of the Kings in the Cathedral of Mexico City. This project introduced the
estípite to Mexico, where it quickly spread and became a standard element of the Churrigueresque style of Mexican Baroque architecture, an overwhelmingly...

Latin American architecture

...in Mexico City, begun in the 16th century by Claudio de Arciniega, is Classical in its layout, with extraordinary fragments of an exuberant Baroque decoration applied on the surface. The cathedral’s
Altar of the Kings (1718–37), by Jerónimo de Balbás, began a formal type that would be applied until the end of the 18th century in Mexico. The altar, which covers the entire end...